On Sunday morning, the Litvish Cheder in the city of Ma’alot in the Galilee burned down. Miraculously, there were no children present in the building at the time of the
A week before U.S. elections, expectations and attention are unusually low in a foreign country that may have more at stake than any other. Many Mexicans would be glad to see a more neighborly president who hasn’t called Mexicans rapists or threatened to build a wall against them, but the relationship has survived a Donald […]
In the second time in two days, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for his condemnation of Islam and radical Muslims following the beheading of a teacher in France who showed Mohammed caricatures to his class. “The person in charge of France has lost his way,” Erdogan said on Monday, following up […]
A French doctor warned Monday that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates. Spain — the first European country to surpass 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases — […]
The New York Police Department said Sunday it has suspended an officer without pay a day after he was seen on video saying “Trump 2020” over a patrol vehicle’s loudspeaker, a violation of department rules. The suspension is effective immediately and the incident remains under investigation, the police department said. Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted that […]
As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up its death toll, the government finally imposed strict health regulations across the country on
In 1969, after completing his life’s work — establishing the yeshivah system on American shores by founding Mesivta Torah VoDaas, Rav Binyomin Wilhelm made Aliyah to Eretz Yisroel. Most people would have assumed that he had done more than his share for the Klal, and that he would now take a well-deserved retirement. Rav Binyomin, however, was heartbroken at the sight of […]
Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis was rushed into emergency surgery Monday for a severe internal hernia, just eight days before the election, his campaign announced. The condition is life-threatening if not treated quickly, the campaign said in a statement. An internal hernia is a bulge or protrusion of an organ — often the […]
It’s neck-and-neck, with President Trump just barely ahead in Rasmussen Reports’ first daily White House Watch survey. The latest national telephone and online survey finds Trump edging Democrat Joe Biden 48% to 47% among Likely U.S. Voters. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, while two percent (2%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, […]
Scientists removed 98 so-called murder hornets from a nest discovered near the Canadian border in Washington state over the weekend, including 13 that were captured live in a net, the
This should come as no surprise to many, but Kever Rachel is closed to outside visitors this year. Yad L’Achim messengers have received special permission to visit Kever Rachel and
Following 24 hours with no coronavirus data update, apparently because of a technical malfunction due to the change of clocks overnight Motzei Shabbos, Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed less than 1,000
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has tested positive for the new coronavirus as the number of infected with COVID-19 in the Balkan country has been on a steady rise in the two weeks. Borissov made the disclosure in a Facebook message on Sunday. “After two PCR tests, today I am positive for COVID-19,” Borissov wrote. […]
President Donald Trump embarked Monday on a final-week charge through nearly a dozen states ahead of the election. His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, is holding far fewer events in an effort to demonstrate that he’s taking the worsening pandemic seriously. The final days of the campaign are crystalizing the starkly different approaches Trump and Biden […]
Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.” With Election Day just over a week away, average deaths […]
“How do we help people realize how critical voting is to our community?” That was the question facing Maury Litwack, Executive Director of Teach Coalition, a project of the Orthodox Union focused on government advocacy for nonpublic schools. Sometimes the solution is just to grab a camera and go. Maury visited community leaders, rabbis, […]
Once again, the NYC Health Department has been caught red-handed, writing a summonses to a totally empty Yeshiva building. In the video below, the viewer will see two inspectors visiting
DOnald Trump has slammed Joe Biden after he “couldn’t remember” his name and mistook the president for George Bush. The 77-year-old was speaking to supporters at a virtual concert as
Afghanistan claimed Sunday it killed a top al-Qaida propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in the country’s east, showing the militant group’s continued presence there as U.S. forces work to withdraw from America’s longest-running war amid continued bloodshed. The reported death of Husam Abd al-Rauf, also known by the nom de guerre […]
A fast-moving wildfire forced evacuations for 60,000 people in Southern California on Monday as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent
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